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108 – Rudi Hoffman on How to Beat Death and Taxes

The Bayesian Conspiracy

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The Importance of Nuanced Arguments on Twitter

Dawkins: There's nothing scientifically controversial about the fact that it would be super easy to breed in traits into people you really wanted to, right? If we were if aliens visited Earth tomorrow and said, if humanity on average is to foot taller in two centuries, we will blow up your planet. That wouldn't that would be not I mean, it would be an inconvenience. It would be hard, but it wouldn't be difficult. And there's every reason to expect that you genix would work from a scientific perspective, but that doesn't mean that we should do it or something.

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